01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

The Beast

Bertrand Bonello

France / Canada

2023, 146'

Romance and dystopia often go hand in hand. Léa Seydoux is Gabrielle, a woman who lives in a futuristic society that abhors emotions that exalt human beings. To this end, a DNA purification process is carried out that leads the individual to travel through all their previous lives, separating themselves from all the things that have affected them. On these journeys, Louis (George MacKay) appears, in an encounter that jeopardizes the whole process.

To what extent is it really possible to get rid of our affections? Can artificial intelligence end up blurring and erasing the remnants of what constitutes us as humans? Bertrand Bonello decides to focus on one face, that is Léa Seydoux’s, to venture to search for some of the deepest and most disturbing mysteries of our own humanity. Throughout a three-stage journey, Gabrielle will navigate the abyss of being human and dealing in the same time with other human beings. Inspired by Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle, Bertrand Bonello gives us what is probably his best film to date. – Miquel Escudero Diéguez

Rhizome

SCREENINGS

May 23, Thursday, 21:30 (146')

Cinema São Jorge, Room 3 • C.396

May 31, Friday, 21:15 (146')

Cinema São Jorge, Room 3 • C.399

INFO

PREMIERE TYPE

National

ORIGINAL TITLE

La Bête

LANGUAGE

French / English

SUBTITLES

Portuguese / English

SCRIPT

Bertrand Bonello

CAST

Léa Seydoux, George MacKay

PHOTOGRAPHY

Josée Deshaies

SOUND

Nicolas Cantin, Clément Laforce, Jean-Pierre Laforce

EDITING

Anita Roth

PRODUCER

Bertrand Bonello, Justin Taurand, Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan

PRODUCTION

Sons Of Manual, My New Picture, Les Films du Bélier

SALES

Alambique

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